Love this map! Thanks Brandon M. Anderson!
Concentration of People in the City of Syracuse
Posts Tagged ‘mapping’
I’m a Dot on This Map
Posted in Visualization, tagged census, GIS, mapping, maps, Syracuse on January 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Visualizing Public Information Can Be Life-Threatening?
Posted in Visualization, tagged controversy, GIS, mapping on January 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »
A newspaper in the suburbs of New York City needs armed guards after editors published a map of pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland Counties. Yes, this is a public database. A link from the AP story to the original publication by the Journal News reveals no maps currently. Perhaps they have been taken down or the server has been overloaded with the new interest? The December story by the Journal News had been developed in response to the Sandy Hook shootings. Details can be found here. The AP provides a screen shot:
Pistol Permits in the NYC Suburbs
Wow! 341,817,095 Dots!
Posted in Visualization, tagged census, GIS, mapping on January 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Great new interactive map created by Brandon M. Anderson at the MIT Media Lab. Check it out here.
Census Dotmap of North America
A ‘Breathing’ Map of Manhattan
Posted in Visualization, tagged data visualization, Manhattan, mapping, modeling, representation, visualization on February 10, 2012| 1 Comment »
Visualizations of large data sets are hot, hot, hot these days! As is everything else related to data crunching. In a New York Times article from 2009, Steve Lohr (and a Google exec) whispered the word statistics into the ears of new graduates. Today, there is new demand for statistics classes on college campuses everywhere. From the Times:
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. “And I’m not kidding.”
The rising stature of statisticians, who can earn $125,000 at top companies in their first year after getting a doctorate, is a byproduct of the recent explosion of digital data.
(Update: Steve Lohr’s article on Feb. 11, 2012 called The Age of Big Data, also in the NY Times.)
A class at Columbia University recently mapped trip data for 10,000 taxi rides in Manhattan in a 24 hour period. The result is what they call a ‘breathing’ map of Manhattan. The video is set to music by Rob Viola.
Fascinated by Place Names
Posted in Visualization, tagged data visualization, GIS, mapping, representation, streams data on February 1, 2012| 1 Comment »
Place names on USGS topographic quadrangles offer insights into local history, but I rarely see anyone making use of the information contained in the names. This map is an exception. I missed this last fall when it apparently made the blog rounds, but here it is in case you missed it too.
US Stream Names Map by D. Watkins
Read more about this map on Derek Watkins blog.
Praxis in Landscape Architecture 